We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.